Compiling mtr without GUI

[Panagiotis Christias]

On 1/13/07, Christian Baer <christian.baer at informatik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Hi there Peeps!
>
> Somehow the mtr-port is bugging me a little. I want to install mtr on a
> machine with no keyboard and no monitor and thus no X - and I'd like to
> keep it that way. Since I couldn't find a package of mtr without the
> GUI, I guess, I'm stuck with the port.
>
> I've looked at the makefile and found the variable WITHOUT_X11. However,
> a 'make -D WITHOUT_X11' and a 'make WITHOUT_X11=1' both[1] result in X.org
> being downloaded and built. Now I am no real expert on makefiles but
> AFAIK in this case it shouldn't matter, what value WITHOUT_X11 has, as
> long as it is set at all.
>
> Am I too thick to be getting the point here or have I missed something
> not all that obvious?
>
> Don't think it matters but the Plattform is SPARC64 and the Version is
> 6.1-RELEASE (no cvsup run yet).
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
> [1] Both should actually do the same thing.

Hello,

we have the following lines in the /etc/make.conf of our non-X11 servers:

# no support for X Windows on this server
WITHOUT_X11=yes

works fine with the mtr port.

Regards,
Panagiotis